Role Playing comunity meeting October 2nd 2005

Sounds Great, but could it possibly be made a tiny bit earlier? 2 or
3am on a sunday night/monday morning is very hard for many people (this
is GMT/BST - UK people) as most of us have school or work.

(( I'll try my best to be there - although I know i'm not exactly a main player in the RP-scene, and am probably not even a blip on many people's radars, I would still definately like to attend something which I hope will be a constructive and positive first step in rebuilding the apparently broken down community.

I can fully respect the decisions of those who have pulled out of association with the Espi-related storylines - I do not know enough of each individual out-of-character to disperse any judgement in either direction - however the beauty of Roleplay is that it belongs to each and every one of us.  No-one controls your character, no-one controls your level of participation - however the reason that the Linenoise RP community garnered such a positive reputation prior to the merge was the seamless way in which the community seemed to band together.  I am saddened more by the breakdown of a community than the disruption of roleplay.

I definately hope that this meeting helps - and hope that everyone can approach it with an open-mind.  One thing I am mainly concerned with is that there will no doubt be a split - I do not want all opportunities to roleplay with the likes of Zealot, Chesire and Dare to be severed simply because I am associated with someone who's writing style clashes with their own.  I have no problem with the level of violence and the twisted nature of the storylines focused on - simply because I have a high threshold for that sort of thing, imparted by a wide-variety of film and literary works which stretch beyond the deeds despicted as of late.

However, the last thing I want is to be typecast and "black-balled" simply because my character follows Espi's command - I would hope that sort of ignorance is not rife within the community.  If it is, then I fear the RP community will not recover.))

Firstly, I want to make you sure that I'll be there at the meeting too.
Like Bosatsu, I have a huge (especially non-mmorpg) roleplaying game
experience and I'm sure I can help.



Secondly, I want to say that the worst thing to do when you're talking
roleplaying is trying to control people. Espi wanted to become a
monster, developping a complez personality. Roleplay with Harpalos is
completly different, it's more about letting people show all their
hidden potential. Each one got it's style. And trying to shove a new
style down people's throat is very dangerous, because we must not
understand that behind each of our characters, there's a player hiding.
We're playing our alter-ego, and we infuse a part of ourselves inside
them. Caution must be used when trying to fix how people roleplay,
because our roleplaying style is very close to how we are inside. I am
curious about the solutions you want to bring, but I'm hoping this is
not a new roleplayer manifesto since you might hurt people with your
opinions. But seeing roleplyaers at the same place and discuss ooc will
be interresting. Count me in.

Message Edited by Harpalos on 10-02-2005 12:13 AM